We look forward to continuing Hanging Loose’s commitment of uplifting emerging and underrepresented poets, writers and artists for another five decades.





Thank you for all of your support. We couldn’t do it without you.
We look forward to continuing Hanging Loose’s commitment of uplifting emerging and underrepresented poets, writers and artists for another five decades.
Thank you for all of your support. We couldn’t do it without you.
Dan O’Brien is an internationally produced and published playwright, poet, and nonfiction writer whose recognition in playwriting includes a Guggenheim Fellowship and two PEN America Awards. O’Brien’s poetry collections are the newly published Survivor’s Notebook (Acre Books), Our Cancers (Acre Books), Scarsdale (Measure Press & CB Editions), New Life (Hanging Loose Press & CB Editions), and War Reporter (Hanging Loose Press & CB Editions), which in the UK received the Fenton Aldeburgh Prize and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection.
Join Elizabeth Hershon, Jiwon Choi, Joan Larkin and Barbara Henning at FiveMyles for a reading and dialogue on the kindredness of words and images.
Harley Elliott, Hanging Loose Press author of Darkness at Each Elbow, Animals That Stand in Dreams, and The Mercy of Distance is exhibiting his Allies series at the Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery in Salina, Kansas.